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water and the wet began to find its way through
the buttoned front of my Burberry & up the ends of
the sleeves. This is the first really heavy rain I
have been caught in this year.

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8th June 1912.
MacGibbon & Watson called for me about 10.15
and we all visited Drumlanrig. It is a
beautiful structure erected between ? 1678 and
1685 - a square with towers at the angles
having an interior courtyard with round stair
turrets in the corner. The front door is reached
by a double flight of steps giving on a broad
balustraded terrace - projecting onto which is
an elaborate porch of several stories terminating
in a lantern and at the base open on three sides.
The carving down the front of the porch is very
rich, baskets & bunches of fruits trailing over
the pilasters & suspended from them by knots
of ribbons on either side shields with the
coats of arms of the Queensberry family. The
side portals of the porch are draped with heavy
curtains in stone. The whole building is in
sandstone of a lovely pink hue. Ashlar in
front and the sides originally harled but
now rough dressed. There is some good
Grinling Gibbons Carving in the dining
room said to have been removed from

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